Dozens of freshmen engineering students to test their design class cars over "Hill Climb" race course at Stevens on December 14th
It may not be the "Indianapolis 500," but for freshmen engineering students at Stevens Institute of Technology, the annual "Hill Climb" engineering design car competition is the main event of their first year in college.
Dozens of student teams will test their model vehicles, which they have built during one of their introductory design courses, Dec. 14, at 2:00 p.m., in the second floor lobby area of the Wesley J. Howe Center on Stevens’ Hoboken campus. The media is invited to this event.
The "Hill Climb" project is a semester-long competition for the students to design, build and test a vehicle that will travel a track comprised of both level and sloping sections at maximum speed. Due to the inclines on the track, the students will need an optimum design to involve shifting gears with a two-speed transmission. Each car includes a microprocessor for the gear control. Students must learn how to properly program the microprocessor to be able to anticipate gear shifts over the course.
| WHAT: | Freshmen Engineering Design |
| "Hill Climb" Auto Race | |
| WHO: | Dozens of freshmen engineering students and their professors |
| WHEN: | Dec. 14, 1998 |
| 2:00 p.m. | |
| WHERE: | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Second Floor Lobby/Wesley J. Howe Center | |
| Hoboken, NJ | |
| (Minutes north of the Hoboken PATH Station and across the Hudson River from midtown Manhattan) | |
| NOTE: | : The competition will be on a race track with inclines and steep hills. The track’s length is 40 feet. Several teams of students will begin testing their cars at 2:00 p.m. |
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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